manynovel Chapter 17: Erlang is an ungrateful person
Chapter 17: Erlang is an ungrateful person
"I don't have much rice at home, but I still have some pickles. I'll send them to your house later."
Chunya wiped her tears with her sleeves and said.
"Yes! I have cabbage at home too."
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Everyone donated generously, and went back to get the things they didn't need. Jiang Youzhen looked at them and felt touched.
The villagers are still simple and honest. They may be afraid of power, but most of them are willing to help others.
Jiang Youzhen and his friends were moved by the kindness of the villagers, but the old man in the upper house was so angry that his teeth were itching.
The old lady closed the window angrily, "Are you crying for mercy? They have cried away all our blessings."
The eldest brother Jiang Haiqing was somewhat speechless, "Mom! Is crying a funeral a good word?"
"But I really underestimated this Erlang before. He is a quiet man with his own ideas."
"Look at what you said. How can you still occupy the righteous position? You should not be underestimated!"
Jiang Hailin always felt that something was wrong. Erlang’s performance today really shocked him. How come he was like a different person?
The old lady looked outside through the window, and when she heard everyone rushing to give things to the second wife, her eyes suddenly turned red with jealousy.
"Erlang is such an ungrateful person, yet we still give him so many things. If your family really has so much extra money, why doesn't he come to help our family?"
The old man's face turned pale. "Humph! They can give me things and food, but I don't believe they can give me money. In five days, I want to see if they can gather three coins and six taels of silver."
Xiao Chen looked at the people in the room, all of whom were gloating over how the second wife would live in the future.
But she suddenly thought, maybe the second house could really raise so much money?
Being able to split up the family right after arriving is a good start.
Jiang Youzhen slept in the cold bed at night. Although his hands and feet were shivering from the cold, his heart was warm.
Oh, right! I need to check the system rewards!
"System, where is the reward?"
[Host, do you want to claim the reward now? 】
"No! Can it still be placed in the system? Then leave it there for now, otherwise it will be hard to explain the origin of the things."
Jiang Youzhen quickly stopped her and said that she would go to town tomorrow and think of a way to take out all the food.
"Does the system have a storage function? Can I store everything in the system in the future?"
Jiang Youzhen finally discovered the advantages of the system. This is good, it can be regarded as a mobile warehouse.
[System rewards can be placed in the system, but other external items cannot be placed in the system. ]
Jiang Youzhen curled his lips, knowing that things were not going well.
Over there, the Shen couple saw the things sent by the villagers all over the ground. Although there was not much rice, there were still some cabbages and pickles.
There were also some unused items, including a worn-out fishing net, a broken broom, and a dustpan with several holes...
"With these, we can save some money and get by for a while. As for the others, we can repair them and they can still be put to use." Shen looked at these and finally felt relieved.
"The head of the village just gave us five taels of silver, saying that he was lending it to us.
Five days is too tight, we have no way to get it together, so I accepted it first. I will carry more bags in the future, earn more money, and return it to the head of the village. "
Jiang Fugui put a five-liang silver ingot on the table and said, "He also gave us ten kilograms of corn flour and ten kilograms of black flour."
"Li Zheng is a good person. In fact, our Erlang just helped their grandson back then. It can't be considered a life-saving favor. I didn't expect them to be so grateful."
This happened last year. The grandson of the village head fell into the river and was pulled ashore by Erlang.
At that time, the head of the village gave one hundred taels of silver to the second wife, but the second wife refused to accept it.
Later, the old lady and the old man found out about it and gave them a severe scolding.
And at that time the old lady forced them to ask for it back, but Jiang Fugui, who had always been kind, was very persistent on the matter and in the end the matter was left unresolved.
Later, the head of the village sent another 100 kilograms of flour, 100 kilograms of glutinous rice, and a pig's leg, all of which were locked in the grain cabinet by the old lady.
They didn't eat it either, and I don't know where it went. I guess they sold it for money.
The next day, Jiang Youzhen got up early in the morning. She looked out the window and it was still dim.
The voices of Erya and the others came from the next room. Although they spoke very quietly, Jiang Youzhen could still hear them clearly.
There is no way, there are only three earthen houses in the west wing.
The house she lived in was the inner room separated from the main house where the couple lived, and her three sisters lived in the next room.
There was another room that was in such a state of disrepair that it was uninhabitable. It could only hold some sundries and was exposed to the wind and rain.
"Today I will build a stove in that house. We have to cook some food. But there is no tile to repair it. I hope it won't rain in the next few days."
Jiang Fugui's voice came, and Erya also whispered: "Dad, Mom! Sanya and I will go up the mountain to have a look and dig some wild vegetables.
There is only so much food at home, so we should save it. We also need to collect some firewood to heat the kang at night."
"Grandma and the others are so stingy. We collected all the firewood at home, and now they won't give us any firewood after we divided it."
Si Ya complained, but her tone was light.
As long as their family is together, they are happy even if it is hard and tiring.
"Okay, after all, he is your elder, so don't talk nonsense outside. That's disrespectful to the elders, how can you talk about relatives in the future?"
"Oh! Why are you talking about this for no reason?"
Si Ya felt embarrassed. The sound of laughter from a few people was heard, and then there was silence.
Jiang Youzhen felt warm in his heart. He knew that as long as the family worked together, they would be able to live a good life in the future.
She touched the short brown jacket in her hand and twitched her lips. It was so thin? And it was still single.
It’s so cold today, and I don’t even have a cotton coat, so I can only put on a few more pieces of thin clothes.
This dress was worn by her sisters and then altered for her. It is not warm at all.
It's really three years new, three years old, and three years of mending!
He sighed, got out of the not-so-warm bed, and shivered even more from the cold.
"Alas! Erya has delayed us. She is already eighteen years old this year. I will go find a matchmaker to look after her in the next few days."
Shen's voice came again, with a very heavy tone.
"But our family doesn't have the money to prepare a dowry now, let's wait a little longer!"
"How can we wait? If Erya waits any longer, it will really be too late. Do you know what Lao Wang from the village told me the day before yesterday? She said that her nephew wanted to see Erya. Her nephew is a widower whose wife has died!"
Shen's voice was filled with tears, "If mother-in-law hadn't been reluctant to let go of Erya, a laborer, and had insisted on wasting her time for a few years, Erya would have been married at the age of sixteen.
At that time, the matchmaker said how good the Qi family in the neighboring village was. What about now? The Qi family boy even gave birth to a big fat boy. "
Listening to Shen's crying voice, Jiang Youzhen snorted coldly.
This grandma really doesn't treat her granddaughter as a human being. Oh! That's not right. She doesn't treat the granddaughter of the second wife as a human being.
Jiang Qinglian, the eldest daughter of my uncle, got married at the age of sixteen. Jiang Qingju, the fifth daughter, was the same age as my fourth sister, but was born a month later. Both of them are already engaged.
Liuya from my fourth uncle's family is only twelve years old. Last time, my fourth aunt said she wanted to meet her in advance and she chose her nephew from her mother's family.